uncle

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
2. The male cousin of one’s parent.
3. (endearing) Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.
4. (euphemistic) Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent.
5. (figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
6. (British, dated, informal) A pawnbroker.
7. (especially) An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
8. (Southern-US, archaic, slang) An older African-American male.
9. (Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, informal) Any middle-aged or elderly man older than the speaker and/or listener.

Intj

A cry used to indicate surrender.

Verb

1. (colloquial, transitive) To address somebody by the term uncle.
2. (colloquial, intransitive) To act like, or as, an uncle.

Concepts

oncle

tonton

oncle maternel

J’abandonne

oncle paternel

frère du père

prêteur

prêteuse

frère de la mère

paternel

cousine

ma tante

mec

cousin

tante

Synonymes

mother’s brother

father

👨‍👦

aunt

father’s younger brother

father’s brother

maternal uncle

father-in-law

paternal uncle

maternal

sir

father’s elder brother

cousin

old man

father’s sister’s husband

mother

👩‍🍼

nephew

Sir

do-gooder

count

🔢

mother's brother

unky

niece

chief official

owner

parent

paternal

brother-in-law

pawnbroker

pops

brother

👨‍👦

stepfather

benefactress

benefactor

Mr

Mr.

unc

male cousin

parent’s younger brother

eldest brother

nuncle

one’s father’s sister-in-law

nunky

elder

earl

great-uncle

Traductions

tío

zio

Onkel

oom

tio

θείος

oncle

Oheim

patruus

nonkel

amca

dayı

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈʌŋ.kl̩/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: uncle

Appartenant à saterlandais: Unkel

Appartenant à néerlandais: nonkel

Appartenant à allemand: Onkel

Appartenant à danois: onkel

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os
Latin avunculus
Old French unclebor.
Middle English uncle
English uncle
From Middle English uncle, borrowed from Anglo-Norman uncle and Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”, literally “little grandfather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo- (“little grandfather”), a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Latin avus (“grandfather”)). Displaced native Middle English em (“uncle”) from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), containing the same Proto-Indo-European root, and Old English fædera (“paternal uncle”). Compare Saterland Frisian Unkel (“uncle”), Dutch nonkel (“uncle”), German Low German Unkel (“uncle”), German Onkel (“uncle”), Danish onkel (“uncle”). More at eam and eame.

Phrases

Did you see Uncle Jake with any cash last night ?